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It means dedicated to Metcalfe (Charles Russell Metcalfe an English explorer and botanist). Name of a genus of plants of the family Poaceae (grasses), dedicated to the same English botanist. Named after an asteroid 792, which was initially named by astronomers as 1907 ZC. This asteroid is so named because it was dedicated to its discoverer Joel Hastings Metcalf, an astronomer from the United States.